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27 Aug 2023, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
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´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO at the Edinburgh International Festival Edinburgh International Festival: Closing Concert

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Edinburgh International Festival: Closing Concert
18:00 Sun 27 Aug 2023 Usher Hall, Edinburgh
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus are joined by three vocal soloists for this powerful finale to the Usher Hall programme.
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus are joined by three vocal soloists for this powerful finale to the Usher Hall programme.

Programme

About this concert

Conductor Karina Canellakis, renowned for delivering emotionally charged performances, takes on feats of musical storytelling in this narrative programme. Excerpts from Richard Wagner’s influential opera Tristan und Isolde capture two lovers at the beginning and end of their doomed love affair. Alexander Scriabin’s symphonic Poème de l’extase, or Poem of Ecstasy, is an immersive experience of delicately layered melodic motifs.

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s choral symphony The Bells, inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s poem of the same name, was one of the composer’s personal favourites. This monumental choral symphony recalls the ‘gladly chiming and mournfully tolling’ bells of Rachmaninoff ’s childhood, which filled his head as he wrote.